We are the champions

So I finally finish that nightmare of a class they call noble etiquette and stop to stretch my limbs after sitting for so long…..2 hours isn't super long but it felt like an eternity, and Leo pulls up next to me stretching as well.

I release bellossom and houndoom, bell takes her spot on my shoulder as I start making my way toward the battle grounds, and houndoom just falls in step with me to my left and Leo finishes stretch and takes to my right.

I notice a lot of people heading toward the battle ground, and notice a few of the usual pointed looks and whispers my way, but I just ignore it, but houndoom and bell not so much as they prepare for a full assault on the heretics….

Gideon " calm down you two, we only have to put up with this shit for a little longer, once I create my own territory we will have all the freedom in the world...besides I don't think anything short of killing these D bags would stop their arrogant bullshit, every time they try something with me it's blows up in their faces, and it's like they instantly forget and move on to their next bullshit...it's almost respectable..."

So bell and houndoom just snort and let it go for now, though I do notice a few sneaky razor leafs find their way across some of the louder nobles belts...

So we continue on like that for about 10 minutes as we finally reach the field, and the crowd is huge again….. I even notice a few aura guardians sending some malicious intent my way, real subtle fellas.

A small gang of nobles is on the other side of the field surrounding who i can only assume is the guy I'm battling? How are they always here before me with all their guys?...and always on the opposite side of the field?...is this some kind of honour or curtesy thing? It's happened 3 times in a row so I can't be coincidence right? I'll ask Leo after I guess

He has blue hair...a water trainer...oh it looks like he wants to start some banter with his crew…..but he seems to hesitate as houndoom glares and snarled at him, but he soldiered all the same

" so here you are toda-"

Gideon " uhp uhp uhp, shut your trap and let's get this over with, I have places to be….specifically not here"

He seemed angered at my interruption of his planned speech, but I just ignore him and balled houndoom and bell due to their presence might affect the battle, not in a bad way for me. But I didn't want to give them an excuse.

So he storms off back to his side of the field and his anger turns to a smirk as he holds a pokeball , that's probably the empoleon he's going to be using and he's thinking it will be an easy win I bet....

Without much fan fare he just clicks the release button and a big penguin with a trident looking mask shows up, it's about 6'5 and green potential…..I just look to the judge with a dead pan stare and say

Gideon " you have nothing to say about that? I mean we are just over a month into the academy, a 3rd evolution seems a bit much right?"

The judge just looks at me coldly with the faintest hint of a smirk and reply's

Judge " I don't know what you're talking about, his starter was a piplup, I checked it myself, and just because a commoner like you couldn't do something like that doesn't make it impossible"

Cool beans, I just give him a nod and release shuckle…..who again seems oddly down for battle today, he's even trying to mad dog the empoleon...he was practicing with houndoom yesterday to make him seem more intimidating ....but his mad dog face is barely a frown and slightly tilted eye brows, almost like he wanted to cry.....don't worry buddy I'm sure they're terrified...

Judge " are you both ready?"

We both just give a nod, the crowd is hyped, the mons are primed to go, and with a "BEGIN" the battle commenced

Opponent " empoleon use water pulse and finish it quickly!!"

The giant penguin launches a super sized eater sphere at my little turtle but without any hesitation.

Yeah pretty much what I thought he would do, shuckle being part rock type it would do some decent damage if it would hit, keyword is "if"

Gideon " bunker down buddy"

In an instant with a cloud of dust shuckle disappears underground and avoids the water pulse completely, easy fix….

And like that a few minutes pass with no sign of my buddy surfacing and the crowd starts to murmur, and my opponent, who o never got the name of since it doesn't matter started his weak trash talk.

Opponent " seems that useless shuckle might have just decided to stay underground so he won't get annihilated but my empoleon, I can't blame him really he knows he place in the world, beneath my feet…."

What he doesn't know is my buddy is more or less ready…..bunker down is code for dig and stack iron defence...so yeah, he was beefy before but now he's defence is broken.

But it won't stop there, I plan to put on a bit of a show….so that's what we are gonna do….

Gideon " alright buddy, come on up, he's not wearing a mask so cough on him and split the bill, it's juggernaut time…"

Code for toxic into power split into power trick…..

Shuckle bursts out of the ground under empoleon and throws him off balance for a second, but it's long enough for shuckle to spit poison in his face and a pinkish glow swirls around empoleon and shuckle as the empoleon shoulders seemed to sag a little, this all happened in about 5 seconds.

Normally bring a steel type gives you great resistance to poison…..not if it gets in your mouth though

And as shuckle lands he uses rollout to roll away to get some distance while empoleon is still catching up, and as soon as shuckle got some distance.

Gideon " alright set up, and let him listen to some darude…."

He suddenly pops back into his shell and starts up his reverse bukkake party, and as he does empoleon as recovered and so has my opponent, and with my code words he had no idea what moves shuckle is prepping…. Besides set up… if he was smart he would know what that means after shuckles first battle.

Opponent " quickly hit him with a water pulse!!, don't let him set the field!!"

Empoleon let's out another large orb of water, this time it actually hits shuckle while he's jizzing all over the field, but he seemed unaffected, which is more or less true, as empoleons energy for offence had been reduced to a pittance... but shuckle defence is the same so, it's probably hurt shuckle a little but it didn't stop him.

After the bukkake party was done he lands with a thud as stealth rock activates and disappears... and as shuckle pops out he doesn't really seem to banged up, a little scuff but nothing that would impede him, he suddenly calls his name loudly as sand starts whipping up violently and blocks everyone's vision…

Darude - sandstorm, nuff said….. but the best part about it with stealth rock and sticky web? It Carries it around with sandstorm... a few seconds after the sandstorm erupted you could hear little bangs in between the whistling winds...and a penguin in pain…..

Opponent " use hydro pump in random direction!!! You have to find him or we lose!!"

But shuckle as already hidden underground with a dig and just waiting it out, we used power split and power trick just in case I needed to hard KO the penguin, but it seems unnecessary now….honestly I could finish it now, but I wanted to buy Logan a little more time to set up for my overly theatrical dunk on this cheating piss stain.

We could probably end in quickly with a few venoshocks which is essentially just poison bending…..it's more of a psychic attack that controls the poison in something body and makes it go into overdrive and destroy their insides…., and with his current energy, shuckle could drop him in 1 venoshock I'd say.

So it went on for a few minutes of the opponent getting more desperate and the penguin being engulfed in a stealth rock and sticky web filled sandstorm whip poisoned, he was trying his little heart out trying to strike back at an opponent he couldn't see.

Shuckle would have just used rest underground to recover from minor damage while he waits for the win, and Lo and behold, the penguin is down in an anticlimactic way, the sandstorm clears up with shuckle popping already out of the ground looking like he's been there the whole time.

The judge is looking like he ate a bug as he announced without any enthusiasm "shuckle wins"

Shuckle slowly crawls on top of the unconscious Pokémon and raises his fists in the air in Victory with a quiet "shuckle" to the silence of the crowd…..twice in a row this shuckle has crushed his opponent, and this time he was outclassed but a fully evolved Pokémon as they were cheating….and shuckle still won…

Most boos and jeers rang from the crowd as shuckle just bathed in it, I was about to lose my shit thinking it was crushing shuckles heart but he just seemed to bask in their hate with a smile on his face and closed eyes with arms outstretched as of saying "is that all you got?"

He's taking after me...I'm so proud of him... as shuckle seems to have had enough he crawls down from the living corpse of his newest punch bag and sits next to me, knowing what we are doing next.

I turn around and notice Logan a few meters behind me, he just nods and turns around to what I can see as a hurriedly built stage my people have prepared for my performance.

So I just turn and follow him and walk up onto the stag, and that's when the crowd noticed the stag as well, because it wasn't there at the start of the battle.

There were a few exploud up on the stage acting a natural speakers for what comes next, everyone but me on stage was wearing servants clothes, and Logan was dressed as his usual self in his butler uniform sitting behind a set of drums…. So I suddenly start to speak with exploud enhancing my voice so the whole crowd could hear me.

Gideon " today was a victory for my shuckle, well earned even after that cheating dick bag obviously borrowed a stronger mon to ease a win, and seemed to bribe the officials to help things along, but none of it matters because we still won…..and to celebrate we have prepared a little song to show our humility towards today's accomplishment….."

The song starts up and for those who knew "Queen" it would be obvious, but since no one in the world does, it's now my original song…..

Gideon " I've paid my dues...time after time...I've done my sentence...but commuted no crime….."

And as the song went on some people were starting to vibe with it….a lot of nobles had felt anger at the obvious taunting especially that skid mark of a noble who lost and his gang, i made sure to eye them and point to them when the losers part came around….

I felt this song said a lot of what I wanted to say to those cunty human beings, so I let loose belting out notes…..

And after I was finished it was met with an odd number of jeers and cheering, but all around it was fun, I'm probably making more enemies in doing this? But it is what it is….

After I was finished I just walked off the stage and started heading home after I let out houndoom and bell when some of the more fiery nobles had surrounded me and wanted to have a "word" with me about my behaviour and attitude…. Well they spoke to houndoom and bell and it seemed to be a misunderstanding... so that good…..

And as i reach home I find Rick waiting for me, he seemed to have some news about the raids that happened last night.

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-Rick pov-

I'm just leaving my lords manor in the capital with some new instructions on how to proceed after last nights occurrence, and my lord came up with an idea that I didn't even think of.

After we wiped out "dark type blood" last night, new spread quiet fast and some other gangs came sniffing around and seeing how they could profit, so we had some people hold it down until our lord could make a decision about what to do.

We aren't the type to take up territory, especially in the capital but it was the lord decision, so we had to wait till after his match to speak to him.

The slums of the capital are the west side, and there were 3 main gangs who ran the place, the strongest was "arboks fang"followed by "carnage" and lastly was "dark type blood", with smaller gangs working for them.

All of the biggest gangs had groups of nobles supporting them behind the scenes to take care of their dirty work, so I'm sure the trouble will become more intense once again after the nobles who supported "dark type blood" coffers are effected.

So I had to speak with the our prodigious young lord about what to do what the territory we are occupying…..

His answer both baffled and amazed me….

" go buy everything from everyone in that new territory, I want to own that whole side of the slums up to the west gate, tear it all down and rebuild it with the standards of little town, it's good it's so close to the west gate, gives us access to goods easily enough, just turn it into a little "little town" do some recruiting of people you can see are decent enough and throw out all the scum bags, rebuild the whole place and wall it off from the slums, just make apartment blocks or something and build a few stories up….. I don't know sort it out with bob and his crew, don't let it look shabby though, just make it something I'd be proud to own I guess….oh and I know I said the standard of little town…. But don't forget to put in a sewage system as well and have Arnold and his boys to find a few people to train up some grimer for the sewer …. Being near the slums would be bad enough...and recruit more decent tradesmen while you rebuild it, keep an eye on the other gangs and nobles, they will definitely try some bullshit, take some people from little town and lock it down."

While this endeavour will cost a fortune and not a small one….. but gold is one thing my lord doesn't lack...and to own 1/3 of the slums? And rebuild it into a little haven even the nobles would be jealous of? A brilliant idea!!!.

Our lord seems to like a plenty of trees in little town, so we would have to transfer some in after ripping up the ground...

I know my lord would charge rent for people who we choose to live there, but I know it wouldn't be unaffordable, it's a long term investment to be sure, nobles consider people from the slum to all be criminals, But I know from personal experience 70% of people in the slums are good people who have been dealt a bad hand in life.

I know there are a lot of retired soldiers who were taken advantage of and forced to live in the slums, they would be easy enough to sway to our young lords side…

This will take several months minimum and literal tonnes of gold, but I could see this being a fantastic venture, to own a haven in the capital would be a great boon to our lord and to ineeta gold….

Of course there is going to be interference but we should be able to handle it just fine, our lord has given us permission to take extra people from little town to ensure this project is handled swiftly....I can hardly wait!!!!….. I know everyone is going to be ecstatic!!!.

Oh I can't wait!! And that egg I have to my lord seemed to please him greatly as well, oh what a brilliant day today is, especially after all that nonsense last night….

I guess I should have someone teleport me back to little town to grab bob and his men for this job, he's been studying architecture with our lord for years, trying to make little town perfect, mainly because our lord said when he has a territory he doesn't want to do much and he can't have people who would build another "cluster fuck"of a city like Holem, his home city…..

We'll use some of the materials we have been stock piling for the new territory for this project, we can always buy more later, it's just lucky that most of those materials are already in the capital, it was save us a lot of time.

So with a pep in my step and a song in my heart I'm off to fulfil my lords wishes!!!!

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Going to be a minor time skip in 2 chapters